Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1: Postcolonial (postexilic) Context of Israelite-Moabite Representations -- Questions Pertinent to This Study -- Selected Texts and Their Historical Contexts -- Genesis through 2 Kings -- Isaiah 15-16 -- Jeremiah 48 -- Ezekiel 25 -- The Moabite Inscription -- Israelite-Moabite and Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations: A Comparison -- Israelite Subjection to the Babylonian (Colonial) Exile and the Formation of Israelite Ethnicization Narratives -- Israelite Subjection to the Persian (Postcolonial) Postexilic Conditions and the Continuation of the Formation of Israelite Ethnicization Narratives -- The Kikuyu Subjection to British Colonial Rule and the Formation of Kikuyu Ethnicization Narratives -- The Kikuyu Ethnicization Narratives in Postcolonial Kenya -- Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 2: Methodological Concerns -- Contextualizing Postcolonial Subjectivity -- Said on the "Oriental" Subject -- Spivak on the Complexity of the Postcolonial Subject -- Bhabha on the Subjectivity of the Colonized -- Synthesis of Postcolonial Concepts -- Postcolonialism and Race/Ethnicity: Interrelationships -- Ethnicity Studies and the Development of Ethnic Sentiments -- The Question of Ethnicity Revisited -- African Biblical Hermeneutics -- Mosala: On the Materiality of Biblical Texts -- Post-Mosalan ABH -- Notes -- 3: Israelite-Moabite Ethnic Representations in the Hebrew Bible -- Sociocultural Representations of Moabite Origins in Genesis 11:27-19:38 -- Representations of Lot in Genesis 11:27-12:6 -- Representations of Lot in Genesis 13 -- Representations of Lot in Genesis 14 -- Representations of Lot in Genesis 18:16-33 -- Representations of Lot in Genesis 19:30-38 -- Abraham-Lot Narratives and the Complexity of Their Reappropriations -- The Violence of Exclusion.

The Abraham-Lot Narratives: Summary and Conclusions -- Representations of Moabite Land in Numbers 21-24 -- Representations of Moabite Land in Numbers 21 -- Representations of Moabite Land in Numbers 22-24 -- Representations of Moabite Land: Summary and Conclusions -- Representations of Moabite Political Leaders -- Representations of Balak in Num 22-24 -- Representations of Eglon in Judges 3:12-30 -- Representations of King Mesha in 2 Kings 3:4-27 -- Representations of Moabite Leadership: Summary and Conclusions -- Representations of the Moabites in Prophetic Literature -- Oracles against the Nations: General Comments -- Representations of the Moabites in Isaiah 15-16 -- Representations of the Moabites in Jeremiah 48:1-47 -- Representations of the Moabites in Ezekiel 25:8-11 -- Representations of the Moabites in Prophetic Literature: Summary and Conclusions -- Representations of the Moabites in the Moabite Inscription: A Push Back against Israelite Ethnicization Narratives -- Israelite-Moabite Ethnic Representations in the Hebrew Bible: Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 4: Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations in Postcolonial Kenya -- Lesa Belle Morrison on the Question of Kikuyu-Luo Representations -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations at the Dawn of Kenya's Independence -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations at the Dawn of Kenya's Independence: Summary and Conclusions -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations in Jomo Kenyatta's Kenya -- The Tom Mboya Factor in the Kikuyu-Luo Representations -- The Kikuyu "Dissidents" Factor in the Kikuyu-Luo Representations in Kenyatta's Kenya -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations in Daniel arap Moi's Kenya -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations in the Aftermath of Robert Ouko's Murder -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations in Mwai Kibaki's Kenya -- The Role of Christian Churches in Kikuyu-Luo Representations -- Kikuyu-Luo Representations between 2007 and 2013.

Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations: Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- 5: Israelite-Moabite Representations: Recasting the Story -- Milton Yinger on the Question of a Peaceful Interethnic Coexistence -- Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations in Postcolonial Kenya: Recasting the Story -- The Complexity of Ethnicity (Understood as Genealogy or Biological Ties) in Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations -- The Complexity of Land Issues in Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations -- The Complexity of Religious Claims in Kikuyu-Luo Ethnic Representations -- Israelite-Moabite Identities in the Postcolony: Ethnicity in the Book of Ruth -- Ruth 1 on Genealogy (Biological Ties), Land, and Religion -- Ruth 2 on Genealogy (Biological Ties), Land, and Religion -- Ruth 3 on Genealogy (Biological Ties), Land, and Religion -- Ruth 4 on Genealogy (Biological Ties), Land, and Religion -- Notes -- 6: General Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography.